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- Son of the Middle Border
- Book
- 2007
- Published by: Minnesota Historical Society Press
summary
A classic of American realism, A Son of the Middle Border (1917) is the true coming-of-age odyssey of a farm boy who—informed by the full brute force of a homesteaders’ life on the vast unbroken prairie—would become a preeminent American writer of the early twentieth century. Pulitzer Prize–winner Hamlin Garland’s captivating autobiography recounts his journey from a rural childhood to the study of literature and the sciences in Boston, his vital connections with such inspirations as William Dean Howell, and eventually his reclaimed sense of identity as a writer of the Midwest’s beautiful yet hard land. This definitive book placed Garland among such regionalist writers as Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, and Theodore Dreiser.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. vii-xvi
- Notes to the Introduction
- p. xvii
- 1. Home from the War
- pp. 3-12
- 2. The McClintocks
- pp. 13-22
- 3. The Home in the Coulee
- pp. 23-34
- 4. Father Sells the Farm
- pp. 35-41
- 5. The Last Threshing in the Coulee
- pp. 42-48
- 6. David and His Violin
- pp. 49-55
- 8. We Move Again
- pp. 65-69
- 9. Our First Winter on the Prairie
- pp. 70-80
- 10. The Homestead on the Knoll
- pp. 81-86
- 11. School Life
- pp. 87-93
- 12. Chores and Almanacs
- pp. 94-100
- 13. Boy Life on the Prairie
- pp. 101-115
- 14. Wheat and the Harvest
- pp. 116-128
- 15. Harriet Goes Away
- pp. 129-137
- 16. We Move to Town
- pp. 138-149
- 17. A Taste of Village Life
- pp. 150-160
- 18. Back to the Farm
- pp. 161-173
- 19. End of School Days
- pp. 174-183
- 20. The Land of the Dakotas
- pp. 184-193
- 21. The Grasshopper and the Ant
- pp. 194-208
- 22. We Discover New England
- pp. 209-217
- 23. Coasting down Mt.Washington
- pp. 218-223
- 25. The Land of the Straddle-Bug
- pp. 235-247
- 26. On to Boston
- pp. 248-259
- 27. Enter a Friend
- pp. 260-274
- 28. A Visit to the West
- pp. 275-291
- 29. I Join the Anti-Poverty Brigade
- pp. 292-307
- 30. My Mother Is Stricken
- pp. 308-318
- 31. Main Travelled Roads
- pp. 319-326
- 32. The Spirit of Revolt
- pp. 327-335
- 33. The End of the Sunset Trail
- pp. 336-341
- 34. We Go to California
- pp. 342-352
- 35. The Homestead in the Valley
- pp. 353-363
Additional Information
ISBN
9780873516983
Related ISBN(s)
9780873515658
MARC Record
OCLC
780154842
Pages
384
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No